Nintendo Will Be Utilizing NFC Later This Year On Wii U

<p>During a Q&amp&semi;A session at Nintendo’s latest financial results briefing&comma; <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Satoru Iwata" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Satoru&lowbar;Iwata" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia">Satoru Iwata<&sol;a> discussed the Nintendo <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Wii U" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Wii&lowbar;U" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia">Wii U<&sol;a>’s NFC feature and how the company are planning on using the technology in 2013&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The feature allows users to scan items such as cards &lpar;similar to the Gameboy Advance e-Reader&rpar; to unlock additional characters or&sol;and levels&period; Iwata’s full comments regarding the Wii U NFC are as followed&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;First of all&comma; there are two main directions when it comes to the use of NFC&period; One is to use it for video games&period; For example&comma; we can create cards and figurines with NFC and design our video games to work in conjunction with them&period; Also&comma; an increasing number of arcade games are utilizing IC cards which can read and write data in order to record users’ scores and it is possible for Wii U games to connect with them&period; We are in talks with several software developers regarding such possibilities&period; We are making preparations and&comma; by the end of this year&comma; we will probably be able to show you some output&comma; tell you about some more concrete examples of the possibilities or even let you try out some tangible examples&period; The other direction is e-money&period; In Japan e-money called FeliCa is widely used&comma; and FeliCa is included in NFC&period; Technically&comma; it is possible to settle an account by waving an e-money card over the Wii U GamePad&period; We are conducting research into this right now as one of this technology’s future possibilities&period; We will make an announcement when we are ready to discuss a more detailed plan&period; Since we have made a certain investment in order to install NFC&comma; we will make efforts to at least receive a return on our investment&period;”<&sol;i><i><&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How would you like Nintendo to utilise NFC with the Wii U&quest; Let us know in the comments section below&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendo&period;co&period;jp&sol;ir&sol;en&sol;library&sol;events&sol;130131qa&sol;02&period;html">Nintendo<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;nintendoeverything&period;com&sol;112092&sol;nintendo-will-probably-show-some-wii-u-nfc-usage-this-year&sol;">Nintendo Everything<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;b8a2332c-04a0-43ab-8cb4-23f21ecb4c90" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;